Ben Roethlisberger has to be still questioning why the Steelers felt the need to use a third-round pick on a quarterback in last month’s draft even though he told the organization that he plans to play for quite a bit longer — three to five years to be exact.

Still, that didn’t prevent Roethlisberger from extending somewhat of an olive branch on Thursday to Mason Rudolph — a little more than a week before he made public comments that were less than welcoming to the rookie quarterback.

“He just reached out (via text) and said, ‘Hey, I am looking forward to meeting you and good luck at rookie minicamp and I said, ‘Hey, thanks, looking forward to meeting you,'” Rudolph told a throng of media following the first day of rookie minicamp on Friday. “It wasn’t a whole lot but it meant a lot to me that he reached out.”